2142 Green Hollow RD by Katie Winters

Author:Katie Winters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: women's fiction romance, sisters fiction romance, divorce fiction, clean and wholesome small town romance
Publisher: Katie Winters
Published: 2020-12-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

A few nights had passed since Jennifer’s mad-dash toward the door of Derek Thatcher. She sat in the driveway of her parents’ place with her hands still on the steering wheel. She had fallen into a kind of trance, lost herself in her own fatigue, and nearly jumped out of her skin when the nurse, Mary, appeared beside the window and knocked at the glass.

Jennifer rolled down the window and forced herself to greet the woman in a friendly manner. Mary spent about forty-five hours a week with her mother, so it was the least Jennifer could do.

“Hey there,” Jennifer said. “How was she today?”

“A bit grumpy,” Mary offered. “Although that’s to be expected, I guess. She spoke a lot about the bakery.”

Jennifer scrunched her nose. “She knows I’ve been avoiding the topic, huh?”

Mary shrugged. “The woman’s brain is fully intact. She can’t imagine a world without her bakery. She told me all these beautiful memories of herself as a young girl, helping her mother roll out the dough.”

Jennifer’s heart dropped. She had similar memories with both her grandmother and her mother. She peered up at Mary, who seemed to look at her with strange resentment.

“She said you’re doing everything you can to make sure the bakery remains afloat,” she said.

“That I am, Mary.” Jennifer blew out her cheeks. “That I am.”

Mary slipped into her car and eased down the rest of the street. Jennifer watched her go, her stance wide in the driveway. Just as she planned to turn in and greet her parents, Nick and Stacy appeared down the driveway. They didn’t live too far away, and apparently, they’d walked.

“My gosh. Aren’t you a sight for sore eyes!” Jennifer said as she threw her arms around both of them. “I thought you said you couldn’t make it tonight?”

“Things changed, I guess,” Nick said. “Stacy said she was starving, and I got out of some of the work I had to do. You know me. I’ll come wherever there’s good food.”

“Then I hope you like pizza again,” Jennifer said. “Because I don’t have any energy to cook.”

Once inside, they found the house in a strange state. Ariane sat in her wheelchair at the dining room table, a set of cards in front of her, untouched. She stared down at them morosely. In the living room, the television screamed a sporting game to John Conrad, who sat with a beer in-hand. Neither of them noticed Jennifer, Nick, or Stacy, not until Jennifer gripped the remote control and flicked off the TV.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” she said to her father.

All the color drained from his cheeks. He glanced toward the ground, where, it seemed, he’d collected a rather large number of beer bottles and cans over the previous hours. His tongue was lazy behind his lips as he tried to say, “Hey there, Jen. I didn’t know you were coming over.”

“Dad, it’s Friday. Me and Nick have come over for Friday night dinner almost every week for the past twenty-some years,” Jennifer said.

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